Bug 2506438

Summary:	polymake: FTBFS with Perl 5.44
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Component:	polymake	Assignee:	Jerry James <loganjerry>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	45	CC:	loganjerry, richmattes
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Description Jitka Plesnikova 2026-07-23 14:05:38 UTC

I am doing rebuild for Perl 5.44. The build of polymake fails due to check in configure.pl

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*** ERROR ***
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polymake has not been checked for compatibility with perl 5.44 or newer;
your perl interpreter says it is 5.044000.
If you already have another (older) perl interpreter somewhere else, you can

I created the patch to increase version to 5.46. However, the build is still failing. The error is:

~/build/BUILD/polymake-4.15-build/polymake-4.15
+ mkdir ../xml
+ ln -s /builddir/build/BUILD/polymake-4.15-build/polymake-4.15/xml/documentation/PTL-docs ../xml/documentation
+ ln -s build.x86_64 build
+ mkdir doc
+ perl/polymake --script doxygen doc
unknown field type '' at /builddir/build/BUILD/polymake-4.15-build/polymake-4.15/perllib/Polymake/Pipe.pm line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /builddir/build/BUILD/polymake-4.15-build/polymake-4.15/perllib/Polymake/Pipe.pm line 34.
Compilation failed in require at /builddir/build/BUILD/polymake-4.15-build/polymake-4.15/perllib/Polymake.pm line 75.
Compilation failed in require at perl/polymake line 167.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jerry James 2026-07-30 17:30:54 UTC

Something has changed with parsing. I'm not sure what is going on yet, but constructor ("new => ...") rules in Polymake::Struct objects are getting parsed to empty fields.  My perl skills are probably not up to figuring out how to fix this.  Hopefully upstream will look at it soon.

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:36:12 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.